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"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Love

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"As Abraham Lincoln once said, if we magnified our successes as much as we magnified our disappointments, we’d all be much happier."

- Abraham Lincoln

Positivity

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes."

- Abraham Lincoln

Adversity

"I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."

- Abraham Lincoln

Compassion

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

Failure

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

Success

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Contentment

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Gratitude

"To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own."

- Abraham Lincoln

Compassion

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Success

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end."

- Abraham Lincoln

Persistence

"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read."

- Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge

"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

Connection to Earth

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good."

- Abraham Lincoln

Awareness

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Success

"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

Ambition

"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

Aspirations

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books."

- Abraham Lincoln

Education

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."

- Abraham Lincoln

Compassion

"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause."

- Abraham Lincoln

Gratitude

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive"

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

""I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.""

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

- Abraham Lincoln

Adversity

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

- Abraham Lincoln

Empathy

"“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”"

- Abraham Lincoln

Future

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

- Abraham Lincoln

Compassion

"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Family

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

- Abraham Lincoln

Aspirations

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Well-being

"It's not the years of your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Contentment

"If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Education

"Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Service

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."

- Abraham Lincoln

Self-improvement

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

""Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.""

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"History rarely yields to one person, but think and never forget what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

""Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.""

- Abraham Lincoln

Education

"“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”"

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

Resilience

"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

Teamwork

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Philosophy

"The mystic chords of memory… will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child."

- Abraham Lincoln

Compassion

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance

"The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature."

- Abraham Lincoln

Inspiration

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."

- Abraham Lincoln

Education

"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Philosophy

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Efficiency

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed."

- Abraham Lincoln

Ambition

"Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

- Abraham Lincoln

Self-improvement

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

- Abraham Lincoln

Achievement

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."

- Abraham Lincoln

Morality

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Abraham Lincoln

Learning

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

- Abraham Lincoln

Education

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

- Abraham Lincoln

Relationships

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle – the sheet anchor of American republicanism."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief in Self

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"The people – the people – are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts – not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? IS there any better or equal hope in the world?"

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"The people’s will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate law for all."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"It is said that we have the best government the world ever knew, and I am glad to meet you, the supporters of that government."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"All creation is a mine, and every man a miner."

- Abraham Lincoln

Inspiration

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

- Abraham Lincoln

Education

"I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"Bad promises are better broken than kept."

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Integrity

"To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"Work, work, work, is the main thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flatboat – just what might happen to any poor man’s son. I want every man to have a chance."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed."

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Perseverance

"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a “drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”"

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Leadership

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

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Leadership

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"The struggle of today is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also."

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Inspiration

"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."

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Contribution

"The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships."

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Relationships

"All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

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Gratitude

"I say ‘try’; if we never try, we shall never succeed."

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Perseverance

"I have received nothing but kindness at your hands."

- Abraham Lincoln

Gratitude

"With malice towards none, with charity for all… let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

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Hope

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."

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Relationships

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

- Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves"

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief in Self

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

Honesty

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

- Abraham Lincoln

Ambition

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

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Honesty

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."

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Integrity

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

- Abraham Lincoln

Peace

"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

Adversity

"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

Awareness

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

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Integrity

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

- Abraham Lincoln

Productivity

"And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."

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Responsibility

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

- Abraham Lincoln

Contribution

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me, and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

Gratitude

"I have a congenital aversion to failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

- Abraham Lincoln

Peace

"I do the very best I know how–the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

- Abraham Lincoln

Originality

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing"

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years"

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

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Belief

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

- Abraham Lincoln

Honesty

"Failure is inevitable. But giving up is unforgivable."

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Persistence

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

Teamwork

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as best he can, the same cause."

- Abraham Lincoln

Respect

"Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure."

- Abraham Lincoln

Respect

"Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."

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Love

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Gratitude

"As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises."

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Faith

"Life is fragile . . . Love is notIn the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Love

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

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Responsibility

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

- Abraham Lincoln

Compassion

""Whatever you are, be a good one.""

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Whatever you are, be a good one"

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Integrity

"Be a good one, whatever you are."

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Integrity

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp and playing my Hohner harmonica."

- Abraham Lincoln

Contentment

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes."

- Abraham Lincoln

Morality

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Inspiration

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief in Self

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality."

- Abraham Lincoln

Relationships

"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Time Management

"Discipline is the mark of a true leader."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"Perhaps a man’s character is like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"I would rather be a little nobody, than to be a evil somebody."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief in Self

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hope

"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it."

- Abraham Lincoln

Change

"Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"Life is fragile . . . Love is not In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Love

"In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Philosophy

"I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace."

- Abraham Lincoln

Respect

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

- Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out."

- Abraham Lincoln

Resilience

"“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”"

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

""All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.""

- Abraham Lincoln

Love

"That some achieve great success, is proof that all others can achieve it as well."

- Abraham Lincoln

Optimism

"not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

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Personal Growth

"Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections."

- Abraham Lincoln

Peace

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

- Abraham Lincoln

Belief

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed it ourselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class, there seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warn-blooded to fall into this vice."

- Abraham Lincoln

Philosophy

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Philosophy

"A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."

- Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge

"I remember my angel mother’s prayers and how they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

- Abraham Lincoln

Faith

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom

"Create your future; don't merely predict it."

- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation